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Appliance Efficiency Standards: A Proven Tool for Affordability and Grid Reliability
RMI’s new grid Reliability Dashboard can bhelp grid planners target solutions to reduce customer outages.
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Beyond Fossil Feedstocks: Methanol-to-Olefins and the Future of Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing
Plastics underpin modern life. They are used in packaging, textiles, and medical devices, and are critical to clean energy technologies such as solar panels and EV components. Nearly all plastics today are derived from fossil…
Industry
Asia-Pacific’s Green Steel Demand Opportunity
Analyzing East and Southeast Asian demand for near-zero emissions steel in 2030…
General
Energy Shocks Are Back. This Time, the Response Can Be Different.
Top experts from RMI and NEIS weigh in on the implications of the global energy supply disruption from the US-Iran war.
Electricity
Why Regulated Utilities Lose More on Uneconomic Power Plants
Business models, not technological constraints, determine whether utilities run money-losing power plants. We offer three solutions for regulators to fix that.
Electricity
Using Regional-First Planning to Streamline Large Load Interconnection
How to align the large load interconnection process and system-wide transmission planning for maximum impact.
Electricity
Understanding Large Load Interconnection
An overview of the process that transmission providers and large load customers such as data centers use when a large load customer requests to connect to the electric grid.
Electricity
Large Loads and Network Upgrades
Large loads are triggering an increasing volume of network upgrades. Addressing those upgrades through a piecemeal interconnection process is inefficient and costly.
Electricity
Large Loads and System-Wide Transmission
Large loads are driving system-wide transmission investments beyond the load interconnection process.
Industry
Toward a New Carbon Economy
The energy transition is often described as a journey toward a zero-carbon future. This framing has been useful in highlighting the urgency of climate action and the need for emissions reductions, but when taken too…
